Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.

If you have to explain satire to someone, you might as well give up.

It's an old Aboriginal word meaning 'Let's get together and have fun'. They gave us the word because they had no further need for it.

I drift along, thinking about the past a great deal. The past is so reliable, so delightful, and the best place to live. I end up there quite often, you know; it's very comfortable and dependable.

There is no more terrible fate for a comedian than to be taken seriously.

The whole point of art, aside from the aesthetic pleasure it yields, is that it provides a bridge to the past; that seductive land where we all find certainty and consolation. Nothing quite spans this gulf with such immediacy as the art of popular song.

Sport is a loathsome and dangerous pursuit.